Account Manager – Ad Sales

Account Manager – Ad Sales

Location: Hybrid – London

Leading media publishing and events business seeks a highly ambitious, result driven media sales account manager to join their team. The Account Manager will be working across an industry leading portfolio selling recruitment advertising solutions across our client’s market leading print and digital platforms and have direct management responsibility of one Sales Support Executive.

You’ll work closely with the Commercial Director, managing and expanding an existing client base, attaining some new business and acting as a representative of their market leading brands.

The Role:

1. Exceeding sales targets set and explained by the Commercial Director
2. Selling advertising packages over the telephone, exceeding KPIs for call times
3. Generating new business opportunities and building good relationships with existing customers
4. Presenting data on client’s performance, recommending improvements and upselling to help reach revenue targets
5. Selling and recommending digital and print products to clients based on both their needs and optimal performance using audience data and general recruitment advertising knowledge
6. Management Responsibility of the Sales Support Executive

Profile of Candidate:

1. Ideally 2 years approx. in media sales, ideally some recruitment advertising sales experience
2. Experience selling advertising across print and digital platforms
3. Results focused
4. Confident phone manner with excellent communication skills

Lipton Media is a specialist media recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in all forms of b2b media sales including conferences, exhibitions, awards, summits, publishing, digital, outdoor, TV, radio and business intelligence.

Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses. We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge.